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Back from openSUSE Asia Summit 2014

October 31st, 2014 by

Thanks to openSUSE TSP, this was my first ever participation in openSUSE event. I spent 15 days in China, traveling outside Beijing after the event, One word to define the experience  would be People, close second would be Food. In this trip I met some of the nicest, friendliest and most helpful people and had food I have never seen before or know the names of.

The summit venue was very impressive, and the event was well organized, there were wide range of topics in both Chinese and English, including mine on openSUSE Education project. What was really missing in the event were many participants. It was a pleasure meeting all the attending community members: Saurabh Sood, Max Lin, Max Huang, Fuminobu Takeyama, Richard Brown, Anja Stock, Raghu Nayyar, Alick Zhou, Qian Hong,  and all the magicians behind the curtains running the show: Sunny, Lance, Yifan et al.

Geeko and me

openSUSE Asia Summit, 18-19 October

October 14th, 2014 by

你好 北京!

Hello Beijing and lovely people of openSUSE, I will be reaching there tomorrow, will be at Green Tree Inn close to the summit venue, packing some “sightseeing” before the event, if you are also there early drop me a line . There is a short talk about openSUSE Education scheduled on 19th. Check out the summit website to find out what other interesting stuff is on offer.

See you soon…

oSA14

Updated openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e-gnome-classic

July 20th, 2014 by

Here is updated openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e-gnome-classic iso, this update include GNOME 3.12, official openSUSE updates till date, and it brings back Sugar.

Download ISO | MD5 | Alternate download and mirrors

Previous release announcement.

Workshop on Open Source for Embedded System Development

July 1st, 2014 by

GUJARAT TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY
Open Source Technologies Club organizes One Day workshop on Open Source for Embedded System Development

On 5th July 2014

At Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics, ,Gandhinagar

Faculty Members from GTU Affiliated Colleges are invited to participate in this workshop.

More information here

Report of the event and pictures

 

Want Factory Restore/System Rescue for Linux?

June 12th, 2014 by

Considering that My sCool Server will be deployed in many schools, some in remote places and Linux system administration knowledge is quite rare, and users quite new to this whole Linux way of doing thing, there are bound to be instances where some bug between chair and the keyboard, online update gone haywire, or may be “it just happened on it’s own” kind of thing, will make something stop working as configured. We needed a way to get the system in it’s original “Factory” setting easily and quickly. Enter recovery-kit.
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Tiny Core kiwi-ltsp thin client

May 31st, 2014 by

Couple of days back went to a school here to demonstrate what openSUSE Education Li-f-e with KIWI-LTSP can bring to their lab. We have created a product based on Li-f-e called My sCool Server. It brings together all the goodies that a modern operating system must have and all the softwares required by the state board curriculum in one seamless package.
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Have some fun… patch your kernel

May 28th, 2014 by

On this point you should have compiled your own Linux kernel. Get it up and running with your hardware but what’s the catch with all of this? Why on earth I want to have this much trouble with my operating system when I can write highly popular fiction with DOS and Wordstar? (more…)

Gnome Classic edition of openSUSE-Education

May 23rd, 2014 by

Here is more goodness from openSUSE Education team, get openSUSE Edu Li-f-e in Gnome Classic flavor.

Network boot live ISO

January 29th, 2014 by

The x86_64 edition of openSUSE Education’s Li-f-e live DVD supports PXE booting the iso over the network, here is how to do it:

* Install Li-f-e on a server from which other machines will PXE boot, make sure you have plenty of space assigned to / partition(about 20G)
* Set up LTSP by following this quick start guide
* Create /srv/nfs folder and copy Li-f-e iso there
* Run the following as root in terminal:

mount /srv/nfs/openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e.x86_64-42.1.1.iso /mnt
cp /mnt/boot/x86_64/loader/linux /srv/tftpboot/boot/linux-life64
cp /mnt/boot/x86_64/loader/initrd /srv/tftpboot/boot/initrd-life64
echo "/srv/nfs *(ro,no_root_squash,async,no_subtree_check)" >> /etc/exports
cat <<EOF>> /srv/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
LABEL Li-f-e
kernel boot/linux-life64
append initrd=boot/initrd-life64 isofrom_device=nfs:10.0.0.254:/srv/nfs/ isofrom_system=/openSUSE-Edu-li-f-e.x86_64-42.1.1.iso
IPAPPEND 2
EOF
chkconfig rpcbind on && service rpcbind restart
chkconfig nfsserver on && service nfsserver restart

Now you can PXE boot any machine over the network, select Li-f-e from the end of the boot menu to boot live DVD iso instead of normal LTSP session.

Use “yast2 live-installer” to install Li-f-e on the client machine.

How to destroy your data from harddisk permamently?

January 24th, 2014 by

First warning and please read it: If you wipe your harddisk, USB-stick or Flash with any of these tips. Your data won’t magically come back! After correct ‘secure rm’ or ‘NWipe’ there way is no way to bring your valuable data back. Make backups and happy wiping!

Destroying data permanently from hard disk is not as easy as you think. Sometime hard disks just self destructs without notice but when there is police behind you door knocking and you have destroy as much data as you can it’s little bit trickier. Even normal cases when there ain’t police at door and you just want to make sure that your old hard disk is clean and it doesn’t contain your personal data it’s a bit of a problem. (more…)